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  Microsoft Codename Acrylic Does Not Do It For Me

  First off, I really, really wanted to love Microsoft’s latest graphics tool, codename Acrylic . I down loaded and install the first public beta, and wasn’t impressed, but hey, it’s an early view into what they are doing, so I decided Read More... Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 8:39 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG, PDC, Adobe Illustrator
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  Adobe To Acquire Macromedia

  Hmm, just heard about this news . Does this show how scared Adobe (and maybe Macromedia) is of Avalon and XAML? Over the last couple years there has been 2 major camps within Adobe, the PDF camp and the SVG camp, and both didn’t seem to like each Read More... Posted Monday, April 18, 2005 8:37 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, XML, Adobe Illustrator
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  Cool Raster to Vector Conversion Tool

  With all the XAML-GUI development going on I forgot to mention a cool tool that I use to convert rastered images to vector called VectorEye . It can convert bmp, jpeg, png, and tiff files to SVG, PS or EPS. Converting raster to vector is more of an art Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:00 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, Adobe Illustrator
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  Creating XAML-GUI Via Adobe Illustrator

  Taking Pablo’s suggestion of using Illustrator to create XAML-GUI, I was able to get it to work with a few caveats. Yes, Illustrator can create XAML-GUI thru Illustrator’s printing functions and the WCPD , but it is hard to control the generated output. Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:47 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG, Adobe Illustrator
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  Documenting the Conversion from SVG to XAML

  One of the things I want to do with blog is to help the SVG developer learn XAML , and get the XAML developer to understand SVG. Hopefully by crossing training both groups we can help make both technologies much better. I believe that both groups can Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:22 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, Adobe Illustrator